Name: Susan Virginia (Zone 8a) God is the only thing that matters.
There is stuff you can add to the water to make them last longer, Mike was telling us something about the Amaryllis but I can't remember. I don't think it is blue though!
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Mat.6:28-29